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1. www.bbc.com › news › world-africa-60183952DR Congo issues death sentences for murder of UN experts - BBC

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   Jan 29, 2022 · Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalan and American Michael Sharp were abducted and killed in the Kasai region in 2017. They were investigating alleged mass graves after fighting broke out between ...

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3. www.npr.org › sections › goatsandsodaRemembering Michael Sharp: He Risked His Life To Make Peace - NPR

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   Mar 29, 2017 · Michael's particular calling was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, persuading rebels to surrender, but he believed his approach could be applied to other violent groups, from ISIS to...

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4. www.hrw.org › news › 2022/02/07DR Congo: Sham Trial for Murders of UN Experts

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   Feb 7, 2022 · A four-year trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo failed to uncover the full truth about the 2017 murders of two United Nations investigators, Zaida Catalán and Michael Sharp, and the fate...

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   Who was Michael Sharp?

   • When he was killed, he was part of a U.N. mission. Michael Sharp believed in the power of persuasion. The 34-year-old Kansan with the round face and a penchant for plaid shirts would walk, unarmed, deep into rebel-held territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sit in the shade of banana trees with rebels and exchange stories.

   Remembering Michael Sharp: He Risked His Life To Make Peace - NPR

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   Did Michael Sharp believe in the power of persuasion?

   • Michael Sharp believed in the power of persuasion. The 34-year-old Kansan with the round face and a penchant for plaid shirts would walk, unarmed, deep into rebel-held territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sit in the shade of banana trees with rebels and exchange stories. Inevitably, those stories would turn to the past.

   Remembering Michael Sharp: He Risked His Life To Make Peace - NPR

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   Why did Michael Sharp go on a boat?

   • Michael Sharp had talked his way onto the boat to try to save his Peace and Reconciliation program, part of the Congolese Protestant Council of Churches, the program that sent people into the forest to persuade rebels to come home. Their shoestring budget — $12,000 a month — once provided by the government of Norway, had just been pulled.

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   What happened between Mr Sharp and MS Catalán?

   • The two investigators are barefoot. Mr. Sharp starts arguing. He and Ms. Catalán are forced onto the ground. Suddenly, shots are fired, hitting Mr. Sharp first. Ms. Catalán screams and tries to run for cover. She is shot twice. Their bodies were discovered weeks later in a shallow grave, laid out carefully, side by side, in opposite directions. Ms.

   For 2 Experts Killed in Congo, U.N. Provided Little Training and No

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6. www.aljazeera.com › news › 2022/1/29DR Congo court sentences 51 to death over killing of UN ...

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   Jan 29, 2022 · DR Congo court sentences 51 to death over killing of UN experts. Zaida Catalan, a Swede, and Michael Sharp, an American, were killed as they investigated violence in the Kasai region nearly...

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7. news.un.org › en › storyNew sculpture at UN honours rights experts killed in DR Congo

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   Aug 3, 2022 · Michael Sharp was a UN human rights expert who was murdered in 2017 while investigating mass atrocities in the Kasai region. A glass sculpture, Abused Ammunition, unveiled at UN Headquarters pays tribute to him and his colleague Zaida Catalán.

8. www.voanews.com › a › dozens-sentenced-to-death-inDozens Sentenced to Death in Murder of UN Experts in DR Congo

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   Jan 29, 2022 · Catalan and Sharp were investigating violence between government forces and a militia in the central Kasai region in 2017 when they were executed by armed men. A military court sentenced 50 people to death, including a local immigration official and an army colonel, but the trial failed to uncover the full truth and the role of higher-level officials.

9. www.nytimes.com › 2017/05/20 › worldFor 2 Experts Killed in Congo, U.N. Provided Little Training ...

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   May 20, 2017 · Catalán and Mr. Sharp belonged to a panel of six experts authorized by the Security Council to investigate rapes, massacres and the exploitation of Congo’s vast natural resources.